Hollywood stars used to deny getting nose jobs or at least avoid talking about them. Many celebrities still do that, but not the new breed of reality TV stars, who often talk openly about their plastic surgery or even have it televised. Former "Bachelor" winner Vienna Girardi is such as a celebrity. She not only had a nose job on July 15, which was filmed by "Entertainment Tonight," she also told her Twitter followers about it even before the bandages were off. She tweeted, "I want my surgery to be looked at as positive reflection of how I feel… If it makes you feel better about yourself then DO IT." Before the operation, she said that in a week, "I'll be able to look in the mirror and see a beautiful nose." (July 27, 2011)

A recent TV appearance by actress Jennifer Aniston, 42, who always seems to be under the microscope, aroused speculation that she has started using Botox and fillers. Two plastic surgeons say she appears to have gotten Botox injections to smooth wrinkles in her forehead, around her eyes, and above her lips, plus filler injections to enlarge her cheeks and fill out the folds between her nose and lips. Aniston has said she only used Botox once, a long time ago, and hated it. A third plastic surgeon disagrees with his colleagues, saying that Aniston seems to have remained true to her no-Botox policy. (July 15, 2011)

Hard-charging businesswoman Kris Jenner may push her daughters to get plastic surgery (see the following item), but she's not proposing anything she's unwilling to undergo herself. In preparation for the Aug. 20 wedding of daughter Kim Kardashian, Jenner got what she calls a mini-facelift last month. The procedure, which tightened the skin under her chin and around her eyes, was filmed for online viewing now and for future use on the reality TV show "Keeping Up with the Kardashians." Photos of Jenner after she recovered from the surgery show minimal changes -- "very subtle" ones, in the words of the Celebuzz blog. (July 20, 2011)

Actress Anna Faris, 34, says her role in the 2008 movie "The House Bunny" led to her decision to get breast implants. For that role, she used a padded bra to boost her breast size. She recently told an interviewer for the New Yorker magazine "It was so fun to feel over-the-top ridiculous and sexy" that she decided to get breast implants after the film was complete. She added, "It wasn't a career thing -- it was a divorce thing." At the time, she was newly divorced from former husband Ben Indra. (May 17, 2011).

Singer/dancer Britney Spears, 29, talked about her plans for plastic surgery as she was preparing for the launch of her latest album, "Femme Fatale." Britney says she'll be ready to consider cosmetic surgery when she starts showing signs of age, but celebrity watchers speculate that she has often had plastic surgery previously – a nose job, breast implants, liposuction and more. (March 29, 2011)

Actress Kim Cattrall, 54, who has long been a fan of Botox, seems out of place in her promotional appearances for "Meet Monica Velour," a movie in which she plays an aging, wrinkled porn star. When she took the part, she says, she was worried about showing her age, but she has now she focuses on the pressures actresses are under. "It's like if you're not using Botox, it's like, 'Really, you should do it.'" The problem, she says, is "Where do you go in your 50s in your career?" Her solution: Look at actress Judi Dench as a role model. That means Cattrall is no longer ashamed of her wrinkles, she says. "I look at people like Judi Dench, who's in her 70s, and I think, 'What the hell am I frightened of?' " (April 22, 2011)

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